Shawn

You people. I am a happy person. At the very most I'd just have a phone conversation with her or send e-mails. Some of you scare me and wonder what ph...

Oh, please. Stop it. Haven't you read anything I have said? She is married and has four kids. You think I'd stoop that low? Her kids would hate me and...

So, who ought have the final word on the matter? The lawyers, judge, or jury?

Evaluating the validity of ethical propositions of course comparatively to the sum total of people in the state of affairs of the world.

But, Wittgenstein! He said we must be silent about such things.

So, we know about what is ethical to do, because we do it in ethical acts. Can thus we write about what is ethical?

So, can any knowledge about ethics can be derived from ethical acts? There are justified true beliefs after all.

I don't think that's the issue. Can a an ethical statement be proven to be true an in fact ethical without referencing a normative theory?

Everyone be quiet, because language is too fucked up to speak it. Wait till I invent a new one that is consistent and provable.

We all want to be special. :_)

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I ought to follow social and cultural norms(?)

That's just contextual-ism said another way and heavily depends on what'ya mean by 'true' here. Give me some examples, if you may?

Even further, truth cannot be derived from normative ethical theories without evoking nonsense.

Certainly every includes any.

Does this leave us with such a state of affairs that ANY normative ethical theory is flawed?

Hahaha, yeah, me being a quant is a pipe dream. BA in econ for now.

I got convinced after reading Thorongils post. You two should have a beer some time and talk over your phil careers. Meanwhile, I have to figure out i...

Here's some responses I got from a different forum. Quite lucid experience. http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=104573&sid=d45223a1753a8231f4...

Time, I can't speed that up.

Nothing to be sorry about. I needed to hear someone's else opinion on the matter and on issues like these your advice is golden. I guess I'm gullible ...

So, I've come to terms with the fact that working at a nursery is not something that will bring home the bread with meat and cheese. I guess we need m...

Yup, pretty much that all. Quite a predicament. I should add though this will seem wrong to say, she's also bipolar and something else which keeps her...

Desires can be limited and restrained. You really don't like Buddhism or Stoicism...? Not really. Such people are called sages and such, get my drift?

I edited that post, in saying they are the result of unfulfilled desires. You sidestepped the issue and avoided answering the question. That is the qu...

Fantasies are the result of unfulfilled desires that inevitably influence conscious thought, would you say not? Let's go a little deeper here and talk...

I would be called sleazy and a pervert. I could even be labeled as a public nuisance and have trouble with the authorities. You're suggesting I slide ...

I think you hit the nail on the head. I was right about posting here, as always. *Ehem, needs to become a subscriber* However, it is cruel and unfair ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbXt3feR5HM Trash dove has visited us and given us these wonderful meme gifts.

I think it's kind of a immovable rock and unstoppable force situation. Putin wants to tame and exploit the cat, while the cat will have none of it. No...

What would unenlightened say? Perhaps, he thinks these are all language games of frustrated teenagers and young adults. It's possible, however some ne...

What is Putin thinking to the cat? http://i67.tinypic.com/2v0gvmc.jpg

Ask Heister Eggcart. He would know.

Ahh, the self. Such an abstract concept.

To live with the expectation that one does not demand from life what one wishes but the situation and fortune he or she have been given, and make the ...

On what grounds does he do this without evoking metaphysics? Did anyone ever get around to doing that? I know Russel and Whitehead tried really hard, ...

Those self eating snakes, barbers, and Pinocchio's always got me. The saying goes that Godel was allowed to eat his cake and have it too in heaven wit...

I have a decent memory. So what I do is read my memories. I'm too lazy to read books. If only I had photographic or eidetic memory I could read my mem...

This is not the heart of the issue. The issue is that the individual rebels from the demands of society because he or she (more often males, though fe...

Don't do that. Mind altering substances only distort life from the real important things in it.

Well, I had a thread about peoples obsession with sex. Thing is people never be satisfied with it. Schopenhauer would agree. Cioran would say its a wa...

I like doing philosophy if you know what I mean, haha.

Yes, for the most part. There can be pleasure derived from spiritual practice though. Though, I think if you look at it closely it all comes down to p...

Stoics have had nothing to say about pleasure. However, I think every religion and most ethical theories have concluded that endless pleasure or the p...

Let us sing about depression. I'm just to depressed to start.

I think unenlightened secretly rules here. His disapproval is heart numbing.

I would say that most professionals aren't capable of psychotherapy in most cases and arent even equipped with the expertise in the area. They'll offe...

Well, that's not really true. I have a fairly good idea of what depression is. It is true, at the deepest of my sorrows I had no motivation to get out...

Well it isn't known to people who 'suffer' from depression. They seem to have a negative thought loop that it something that should be fought with and...

A follow up on my OP: Despite depression being a natural thing, we live in a society, and society mandates that we be productive citizens. One cannot ...